Rolf A. Kluenter was born in Cologne, Germany in 1956. In 1980, while studying painting at the Kunstakademie (Academy of Fine Arts) in Duesseldorf, he received a scholarship to go to Nepal. In 1982, he received his Meisterschueler (Masters) from the Duesseldorf Kunstakademie, and in 1988, he accepted an assistant professorship at the Tribhuvan University Campus of Fine Arts in Katmandu, Nepal, where he served until 1994.

Rolf A. Kluenter's art work evokes Asian aesthetics.

Manifestly, his art work has been permeated by the art, culture and history of Nepal and China, where the artist has spent the past 22 years. However, Kluenter's abstractions are imbued with inventive elements of advanced Western art: basic geometric elements calligraphically condensed; subtle running colors casting imaginery spaces; lines and hatching; application of the brush and meander, glazes and overlapping; blank spaces and contrast.

In his works on wood and clay from 1988 to 1999, Rolf A. Kluenter explores space in its own dimension i.e. in a three-dimensional context.

From 1999 to 2002 Kluenter exclusively restricts himself to the material of paper. He uses thick handmade paper with rough borders and irregular surfaces, freak and shaped forms to create paintings, objects and giant paper installations. He introduces fine color pigments to the paper, which in turn yields its own particular texture: a process, which inextricably interweaves transparency and color; and fragility and strength. His entire repertoire of non-representational filigree shapes, and essentially free interplay of artistic elements, is reminiscent of, but not identical with, handwriting.

In 2002, introducing stainless steel into his work for the first time Kluenter says his intention is to "join the most ancient of materials with the most modern."

Rolf A. Kluenter, an on-going experimenter in his domain, often displays his objects in series as ever so many declinations of basic emotional positions. His works, as himself, are situated between cultures, crossing borders, intersecting at cross-cultural pathways in the concrete as well as the artistic domains.

He has been regularly exhibiting in Europe, USA, Australia and China since 1980. Currently, Rolf A. Kluenter is developing his artistic vision from his studios in Shanghai (China), Katmandu (Nepal) and Cologne (Germany)